Example sentences of "and [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 At first this was because of high levels of youth unemployment and latterly because of demographic trends .
2 By February 1990 almost one-third of the 344,263 ethnic Turks who had fled in 1989 had returned to Bulgaria because of the unemployment and other economic hardship they had encountered in Turkey , and latterly because of the repudiation in Bulgaria of Zhivkov 's assimilation policies .
3 Between the 4th and 15th and on or near the 27th you may face some extraordinary turns of events .
4 And on and off a shower or two of white arrows , when I thought I needed them . ’
5 On and on and on for ever , with no way out — ‘
6 Or does it go on and on and on and on ?
7 The debate should not endlessly be about tactics , it becomes self-defeating to go on and on and on wrangling about tactics when it is the motivation behind those tactics that holds the key .
8 And on and on it goes .
9 Do you like the sound of your own voice so much you have to go on and on and on today ?
10 they seem to be going on and on and on
11 When , when Pat and Ann was at Notre Dame , Pat used to sell , tell stuff oh and they went on and on and on
12 My Lords , I hope that I can er erm allay the disquiet of the Noble Lord , Lord erm the , th th the fact is that British Transport Police at the moment have control and jurisdiction over all the the railway system in and on and in the vicinity of the , the railway the railway organisation .
13 The high blue summer weather goes on and on and by mid-afternoon it 's hot up here under the leads .
14 What ‘ does ’ and ‘ does not ’ count as ‘ science ’ depends on the social meaning given to science , which will vary not only historically and cross-culturally but within societies and situationally .
15 An Executive Agency is a non-statutory management device aiming to ensure that the executive functions of the Government are run efficiently and effectively and within available resources .
16 Hamilton ( 1987 ) refutes the HEDT suggestion that widespread deforestation in the Himalaya is the prime cause of flooding in the lower reaches of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra and argues that large-scale flooding , such as that of 1985 in India when 237 people were killed ( and presumably that in Bangladesh in 1988 ) , could not be prevented even if the entire Himalaya were forested .
17 The range of the assay was 20 to 4000 µg/l and within and between batch coefficients of variation were 3.4% and 6.1% respectively .
18 The range of the assay was 0.1 to 10.0 mg/l and within and between batch coefficients of variation were 2.4% and 4.9% respectively .
19 And within or without these dancing shapes and from deep within the brighter flame of my own imagination I can escape any pressure from any source .
20 She spoke quietly and politely and without any sign of showing off .
21 The FMLN command argue that cooperative production is vital , so as to develop a more self-sufficient economy within the zones and so that after the victory , the national economy will have a working base on which to build .
22 It is then quite easy to work out which third the cell is in , and so whether to be blue , white , or red .
23 It 's an imaginary fox , yes and so when at the very end of the poem he says when he says the window is starless still the clock ticks the page is printed .
24 He 'd send them then , he every dock was numbered from one to hundred and thirty and he 'd say righto , number one so and so , number five so and so and of course when they come back to the pool , they 'd go on the end of the rota .
25 And so because of that sense of ill ease of fit , we decided that perhaps it would be appropriate for the assembly council to look at where this work ought to most comfortably go .
26 As England 's leading batsman of the 1980s he has borne a heavy responsibility and perhaps because of this has never completely fulfilled his potential ; few batsmen can have been blessed with so much natural ability , yet he often looks vulnerable until he has settled down and even then has succumbed countless times to an infuriating nibble or waft outside the off stump .
27 The bore has an evil reputation , whether deserved or not , and perhaps because of its lonely location the emotive nature of a one-and-a-half-mile hole through a hill .
28 And there is the equally striking landscape of the vanished tin-mining industry : the windowless engine-houses , the monolithic chimney stacks against the skyline , the ruined cottages of an old mining hamlet , and the stony spoil-heaps — a purely nineteenth-century landscape , and perhaps because of its setting , the most appealing of all the industrial landscapes of England , in no way ugly but indeed possessing a profound melancholy beauty ( Plate 92 ) .
29 I was the youngest member of the party , and perhaps because of my youth I had more hope than the others .
30 I told my father I was trying to get them over to the far side , to the mainland , and that the ones I had to bury , the ones which fell short , were victims of scientific research , but I doubt I really needed this excuse , my father never seemed bothered about the suffering of lower forms of life , despite having been a hippy , and perhaps because of his medical training .
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